

Four years on
"There are plenty of artists who don't have exhibitions, there is plenty of art that is never seen... Making art that does not have a...

Hatching Fitcher: A Curious Sort of Bird
I made two new dolls, a feather covered "Fitcher's Bird" and another with the working title “Bird Woman Spawning”. I have worked on...

Embodied Enfleshed
I have been in the grip of an "addiction to perfection" in relation to this blog - consuming more and more (books), throwing ideas and...

Containing the Water of Life
"Perhaps what I wanted most to do is not to do what I most wanted to do" Marion Milner Container n 1 one who or that which contains 2 a...

Renascence: Waking from Sleep
In February I had my second solo show: Finding the Goddess. Sounds very impressive until I have to justify the huge CV gap between 1996...

Journey to Meet the Goddess
The Triple Goddess sculpture is still unexhibited - too big for all the potential spaces so far. Her feminine curves, multifarious...

Dolls and Daughters
I finished reading Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter. Ferrante is such an interesting writer, so savage. After the compassionate...

New objects, old preoccupations
The exhibition has been and gone. I have been expanding outward, embracing new things. I have been able to read fiction again and found...

Transgression
I started writing this as I was preparing the exhibition but as the practicalities became more urgent I had to focus on woodwork,...

Exposure
I am preparing to be seen. Am I going to be R. B. in this exhibition? Shall I “come out” completely? Or will I be the more deeply veiled...